Kudos for doing this workshop and talk to the people selected for you. I assume they agreed to this beforehand but I can imagine it'd still be weird. You were the only one assigned to this family? The story and images on the site you linked are amazing.
Thanks. Everyone had agreed but at the same time, nobody understood what they were agreeing to. A good number of people had their initial stories fall through, in which case they drew another name or just went out into the community and found one. I was the only one with this family but it is a fairly small community so as I followed them around I occasionally ran into other photographers as our stories overlapped. Thanks :) It was a really amazing workshop.
Interesting... I glanced over some of the other stories (haven't read them yet but will come back to them) and my initial thought was what a diverse community, I think I might like it. So, to you and your fellow photo journalists: Well done.